ALMATY: Authoritarian Uzbek leader Islam Karimov, whose Central Asian country is a stage for strategic rivalry between Russia, China and the West, is in stable condition in an intensive care ward after suffering a brain haemorrhage on Saturday, his daughter said.
President Karimov, 78, who has run Uzbekistan since it was a Soviet republic and wields sweeping powers, has ** obvious successor, a situation characteristic of the volatile Central Asia region which is still largely run by former Communist apparatchiks.
The absence of a strong political opposition or free media means any eventual transition of power is likely to be decided within a close circle of Karimov’s family and top officials.
"At the moment, it is too early to make any forecasts about his condition in the future," his daughter Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva wrote on her Instagram page on Monday.
08-30-2016, 04:40 AM
Karimov in intensive care
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